FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

Chris Parker cparker at starnetusa.net
Wed Jan 22 18:02:29 UTC 2003


At 09:28 AM 1/22/2003 -0800, Al Rowland wrote:

>Not to mention that fact that 99.99% of current consumer connections are
>not up to the task. Standard full-screen video digital stream is ~6Mbps,
>HDTV requires 19.4Mbps. Don't know many consumers with T3s. ;)

Drifting off-topic, but those are 'raw' data rates.  Compression algorithms
along with motion-estimation allow you to get full-screen video down to 
~1.5 Mbps with not much in the way of image quality loss.

That puts you into DSL/Wireless range.

>As always, it gets down to doing the math, something may dot bombers
>weren't (aren't) very good at. AOL/Time Warner is just the first major
>example of this 'not yet ready for prime time' business plan. Not to
>mention the effect everyone on AOL going to broadband and downloading
>Disney clips all the time would have on their settlement plans with
>backbone providers.
>
>When fiber-to-the-curb is the norm we'll be able to 'Ride the Light'
>Until then, your mileage may vary. You might also see some change in
>settlement plans and consumer pricing about that same time.

I think you'll see it long before every house has fiber run to it.

My 2 cents anyway.

-Chris

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